Identifying and Analyzing the Factors Affecting the Strategic Planning success in Urban Management with the Fuzzy Cognitive Mapping Approach

Urbanization specific problems have made the plans and strategies more urgent. In this regard, strategic plans have been proposed as dynamic and participatory plans in the urban planning system. The purpose of this research is to present a model of the relationship between effective factors on the strategic planning success in urban management in Yazd province. This is a practical purpose because the development of applied knowledge and its practical application is considered in order to solve one of the problems of urban management. This research is about descriptive control of variables and from the aspect of data collection. The population of this study was 140 people. The sample of this study was 50 people. The research instrument consisted of a researcher-made questionnaire that included 44 factors. Validity, formality and content of the questionnaire were confirmed by a number of strategic planning professors. Data were analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics. Finally, by presenting a systematic model, the effect of each identified factor on the success of strategic planning in urban management was obtained. In this research, the factor of standardization was identified as facilitator of control as the most central factor among other factors. Then, using scenario logic in the fuzzy cognitive map, the scenario was studied about the knowledge-based factor.